MALNOURISHED • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Malnourished

... about 1.8 billion metric tons; production increases have resulted mainly from increased yields rather than increases in planted areas; while global production is sufficient for aggregate demand, about one-fifth of the world's population remains malnourished, primarily because local production cannot adequately provide for large and rapidly growing populations, which are too poor to pay for food imports; conditions are especially bad in Africa where drought in recent years has exacerbated the consequences of all other factors Economic ...

— The 1992 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.